. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. THE COiMMON KED SLUG, OR LAND SOLK 40: In these creatures tlie foot and body are indistiiif^uishablo from each other; the head is rpti'iictilc ; and the wliole creature can be gathered into a short rounded mass, looking so like a pebble that it would escape a casual j^lance. At the first view, the Slugs appear to be destitute of shell, but, on a closer examination, the shell is found upon the fore iiiirt of the Inxly, and either entirely or ])artially
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. THE COiMMON KED SLUG, OR LAND SOLK 40: In these creatures tlie foot and body are indistiiif^uishablo from each other; the head is rpti'iictilc ; and the wliole creature can be gathered into a short rounded mass, looking so like a pebble that it would escape a casual j^lance. At the first view, the Slugs appear to be destitute of shell, but, on a closer examination, the shell is found upon the fore iiiirt of the Inxly, and either entirely or ])artially Imried beneath the inlegunH'nts. ^\'hen ivinoved, it is not unlike the opercuhuii of many molluscs, being small, llattish, and with an evident nucleus. They have fo\ir tentacles, like those of the snails, the i^ye-dots ii|i]ii'iii'ing, as in those molluscs, on the tips of the upper and longer pair. The iL'spiratory orifice is placed on the right side of the body. Tlie Gbkat Ghey Sluo is the largest of the British species, and when furnished with .il)Uii(lant food, on which it can fatten itself during the night, and a secure lading-])lace, wliitlier it can retreat during the day, often attains an enormous size. The careless I'lirdcner, who has suffered heaps of old rubbish to collect in his dominions, is often lionilied, when he at last removes the stones or sticks, to find under them a nund)er of Inline Grey Slugs, that have been silently consuming his ilowers and vegetables, and lie slimy and obese at his mercy, bewildered with the unaccustomed light, and unable to escai)e their impending and deserved fate. It is true that Slugs, smiils, and all similar creatures, must have been created for some useful jiurpose, and in their proper })lace disc.'i rgo the duty for which their forms were designed and their instincts ini|)lanted; l)i!l ii is cl(>ar that a garden is not the proper place I'or Slugs, and that if they make their aj'peiirance within its precincts, they must be ext
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